This is the tenth article in a continuing series by the NRDC Action Fund on the environmental stances of candidates in key races around the country.

Today, we examine Florida's 24th Congressional District, on the east coast of Florida and covering portions of Brevard (including Titusville), Orange, Seminole and Volusia counties. With Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center, this area is known as the "Space Coast," and Titusville is nicknamed "Space City, USA." Since January 2009, the 24th congressional district has been represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by Democrat Suzanne Kosmas. This year, Rep. Kosmas is being challenged by State Representative Sandy Adams, who won a narrow, upset victory in the Republican primary in August over former Winter Park City Commissioner Karen Diebel and former Ruth's Chris Steak House CEO Craig Miller.

So far in this campaign, Kosmas has stressed her work in Congress is "to bring real, common-sense solutions to Central Florida, including extending the life of the Space Shuttle, funding the new Orlando VA Medical Center and cutting taxes for small businesses." For her part, Adams has argued that "record spending" and "debt are enslaving our children and grandchildren." Adams also has asserted that "[l]iberal special interests, hostile to American traditions, are systematically stripping our country of the ideals that make us exceptional."